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New drug may limit disease progression, provide better symptom relief to Parkinson's patients

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"...then what we have is a compound that just isn't currently available to Parkinson's patients but that we think has a lot of promise," said Bishop" Isn't that what all the new prospective treatments say. Don't want to release final results too soon and stop the money donation flow.

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It is an Agonist that works in mice. From Mice to men most probably decades if ever.

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park_bear in reply to parkie13

Since they compared it to one, probably is, but they don't really say.

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JohnPepper

You will notice the word, "may" is used and not, "will". Why would that be?

I wonder if we will ever hear any more about this drig?

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Serenity_finaly-1 in reply to JohnPepper

I am about ready to shoot all the Mays I see related to Parkinson's. Our maybe get rid of all the month together.

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GailBailey

Hope then frustration.....They give us hope and then tell us .....but !!!!!! There's always a but....

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Marcomando

Hmm... light on detail.

I won't be holding my breath on this one...

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park_bear

They don't say anything about mode of action except is anti-oxidant. No medical journal reference either.

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rhenry45

I really hope this is something that we can all use very soon and is not a false hope.

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jenniferdunstan

Ah,yes!

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